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Chicago examiner monday â€¢ monday i vol xvi no 104 a m Chicago april 22 1918 eealstered t>r>t/~<tr rptt itpxttic in Chicago elsewhere u sp.wof6 kil/11 ivv u li tlzi 1 d and suburb3 three cents entente army is landed to aid russ british and french troops defeat white guard attack in arctic region of northern russia i co-operating with bolsheviki to repel invaders and save sup plies in kola and archangel moscow april 21 delayed dis patches tell of the landing of french and british troops at jlourmansk on the northeast coast of kola peninsula in the arctic ocean tle allied forces were landed to reinforce a detachment of british ma rines sent ashore several weeks ago they are co-operating with bolshevik forces in protecting the mourman coast and the railroad against attack fcy the finnish white guards kola although it lies north of arch angel is one of the northern rus eian ports that are open all the year ound germany lias been sending troops into finland to aid the white guards in reaching the mourman dis trict and kola and archangel where mountains of supplies have deen tiled up finns are defeated in first battle detachments of russian reel gfcaids are also co-operating with the kntente forces in this region under orders of the mourman soviet council which comprises an english man a frenchman and a russian the british and french have al jeady clashed with the finuish white guards when the latter attacked the mourman railway near kem on the west coast of the white sea 2co miles south of mourmansk the finns were decisively defeated the white guards in attacking near kem crossed the finnish bor der and invaded russian soil for 150 miles their ability to operate so far from their base is explained by the recent assistance they have re ceived from germany american supplies at archangel periled their attack on the railway was de livered at a point 150 miles west of archangel at both archangel and mourmansk are huge quantities of supplies many of them shipped from the united states one of the mis sions of the allied forces is to pro tect these supplies the situation in this respect is sim ilar to that at vladivostok where large quantities of war supplies sent into russia by the allies and america have been concentrated the recent landing of british and japanese marines in the latter port however was against the wishes of the bolshevik government vladivostok situation held peril for allies washington april 21 â€” the 801 ehevik order to move supplies from vladivostok to interior russia is recognized here as one of the most delicate developments of the eastern problem possibly involving the fu ture of russia as a teuton or en tente ally marconi promises munitions inquiry rome april 21 â€” purchases of mu nitions in the united states for the italian arm-y will come up for dis cussion during the present session of the italian parliament said sen ator marconi to-day an investlgs j king urges u s to send men to italy rome april 21 king victor emanuel told capt florella | h la guardia last week the cap tain said to-day thaf so many of our soldiers have lived in america that the amer ican hoys with their starry flag would be thrice welcome on this side the enemy across the trench es the king added are not nnvinced the american sol diers are really crossing the oceon some of their propa ganda leaflets say the american soldiers are prevented from reaching europe by germany's submarines adding that even a few ameri ' can soldiers among his men would make him happy the king said after the first detachment has reached here america sure ly will send more i britain seizes irish railways postoffice and phones taken hundreds of thousands pledged against draft london april j 2 2 the daily chronicle's correspondent at cork wires that the military authorities have taken control of the principal irish railways the telephone ex changes and the postoffice on saturday all arms and ammuni tion were re/noved from dublin shops by the police it is reported that similar action will be taken through out ireland hundreds or thousands of irishmen to-day all over lireland subscribed to the covenant in the churches to resist by all possible means the im position of conscription conscription was the subject in every catholic pulpit the passage of the act and what it meant to irish history was explained priests give oath the covenant was administered by priests and was subscribed to in a quiet and uneffusive manner the bishop of london to-day pub licly declared for conscription he i appealed to the clergy to rally to the national cause without regard to ex emptions a royal proclamation was issued last night canceling exemptions from 19 to 23 physicians and men hold ing certificates granted by colliery recruiting corps are affected mostly australians join protest dublin april 21 â€” john dillon chairman of the nationalist party has received the following cablegram on behalf of the australian heirarchy considering the persistent refusal of a responsible government to grant home rule to ireland despite the votes of the people we call upon the gov ernment to grant home rule for ire land forthwith fleets fight in north sea germans flee london april 21 â€” the admiralty issued the following official state ment to-night british forces operating in heli goland bight saturday obtained touch with enemy light forces who retired behind the mine fields a few shots were exchanged at an extreme range one enemy destroyer was observed to be hit all our ships returned without casualties please stop the war so patriot may enlist st paul april 21 st paul boasts america's greatest patriot he passed recruiting offices to-nigrht and when asked to join the marines said patriotism prompted him to do so but on account of the war he just couldn't he left but did not leave his name . â€¢ jeers greet allinson on way to grant by w c i hallowell larch pacifist faces court-martia as willful deserter in time of i war one penalty is death | two husky guards bring poet | through Chicago wears yel | low muffler and military shirt brent dow allinson jÂ»rima donna slacker of the united states slept in the military police guard house at camp grant last night he was partly in uniform the blankets were clive drab the tall blond poet drew a cot be tween two snoring ukrainians who share his view with regard to war as he turned in he was asked are you willing to don the uni form i don't know he replied shrink ing away i really can't say i'm all tired out i don't know what i'm going to do now when i go before j the court-martial i'll do my talking ik guard's cistodt allinson arrived in Chicago from washington in custody of two regu lars at 5 o clock and was an hie way to camp grant at 7 the last leg of his journey was on a camp special loaded with soldiers curious to view the man who had had the distinction of being arre&ted by an order of the secretary of war he was kept incommunicado in a compartment to prevent a demonstra tion however and when the canton ment was reached he was surrounded by military police and hustled away to the guardhouse in an automobile allinson became gloomy as the train neared the camp fears mob at camp i suppose i'll be mobbed when we reach there he said nervously his fears were groundless the ukrainians didn't even sit up to look him over the good-night ceremony was simple show allinson his bed ordered lieut p c buffum officer of the day got a bed for this bird asked the corporal addressed yes sir replied a private thank you u^od-night said the poet wearily there were stories on the train that brought allinson from washington to the effect that somebody had said he had threatened to harm secretary baker story is not confirmed one of alllnson's guards said a secret service man had told him such a story in washington allinson's family which is not en tirely in sympathy with his flouting of chairman bernheim and draft board 44 boarded the b & o train at 63d st and until he left town they importuned him to recede from his defiant stand and avoid the dis grace of a long term in leavenworth penitentiary a few minutes before the camp train pulled out allinson showed the first signs of weakening under pleadings and arguments he said j'l shall not resist the ordinary forms and requirements of the army will dob uniform this his father interpreted as mean ing that his son would not refuse to put on a uniform when ordered to brent has decided i believe said his father to take advantage of the offer of president wilson to allow a man who honestly ie opposed to kill ing to be given service in some non combatant branch for himself young allinson had said i made no appeal to secretary baker to be sent to camp meade if i had done so i believe my re quest would have been granted and all this trouble would have been avoided my position is well known i am now in the hands of the law and i suppose the law will have to take its course allinson is a typical ascetic but he looks as if he would make a ! good soldier if they could ever get him broken in at the grand cen berlin plots to end holland's neutrality /â– t ondon april 21 holland is -*- 1 confronted by a serious men ace in berlin's latest plot to force the dutch into the war says a dis patch from rotterdam the kaiser's demands are not known in detail but it is believed he will press such proposals that the hague will have to take the most momentous step it has faced since hostilities began failure to protest more strongly against the entente's seizure of the dutch mercantile fleet is be lieved to be the german govern ment's pretext for the demands ! quake damages 2 coast towns 1 tremors sharpest eighty miles south of los angeles man 1 killed in panic by international news service los angeles cal april 21 â€” a violent earthquake felt generally in southern california and in arizona this afternoon practically razed the southland municipalities san jacinto and hemet about eighty miles south east of los angeles did damage in a number of towns caused the death of one man and serious injury to severil others the aggregate loss is estimated at approximately 500 0w the dead man is frank e darnell 0 of trinity hotel los angeles he was trampled in a panic on the pier at santa monica woman in hospital hurt mrs mary spears was probably fa tally hurt at loma linda where she was a patient in a hospital the shock occurred at 3:33 o'clock in the afternoon and was of 43 sec onds duration in loa angeles plate glass win dows were broken in two downtown buildings cornices were shaken from others and there were near panics in several theaters not a business building is stand ing in san jacinto and hemet and few homes escaped destruction both cities are practically without means of communication with other munici palities electric light and gas are out of commission and the towns are both under martial law imposed by home guards the loss in san jacinto is conserva tively estimated at 200,000 hemet has suffered equal damage 3 telephone girls caught caught before they could move from their posts three telephone op erators were buried they were dug out unhurt two men were buried in the ruins of another second-hand store two men were buried in a cave-in that resulted from the quake at a magnesite mine near san jacinto they were believed to be fatally hurt â– ben crowe on the kumler ranch is reported seriously hurt his house caved in on him the home of ramona near san ja cinto made famous by helen hunt jackson's story was demolished the quake was powerful in the san jacinto mountains mountain leaps into air a dense haze obscured the moun tains surrounding the towns most af fected strawberry peak appeared to leap into the air and then settle down the shock was particularly severe at san bernardino where dozens of plate glass windows were broken the wall of one building fell and a panic occurred at a ball game the front of the odd fellows 1 build ing fell at banning the shock was also severe at riverside at reilands two chimneys fell through the loma linda sanitarium roof injuring a patient mrs mary scear of Chicago haig takes men and guns in attack betters positions in robecq sec tor fresh german blow with changed tactics expected intense artillery duels raging from flanders to verdun suc cessful minor fights by french london april 21 a marked increase in the intensity of the furious bombardments over the entire western battle front developed to-day the cannonading was appreciably heavier against the french line through picardy from the somme to the oise there are indications the germans have brought up many more guna of of the largest calibeds everywhere the allied artillery is replying vigorously and effectively in flanders there have been a few lively local engagements in conjunc tion with the artillery fighting field marshal haig this morning car ried several enemy trenches by storm in the neighborhood of ro becq on the southern side of the armentieres salient strengthens bethune defense lines he has greatly improved his posi tions in this sector materially strengthening the british defense of bethune important railroad center and one of the chief objectives of the enemy the official statement to-day from the german war office announced that reciprocal reconnaissances in flanders led to violent infantry en gagements it also reported lively artillery duels^near la baasee lens and al bert on the british front and spir ited bombardments of the french front from the avre to the oise the paris official statement goes further and announces great artillery activity on the somme the avre the oise and the meuse this takes in the amiens sector the montdidier sa lient and the front north and south of verdun fresh german onslaught expected a renewal o'f powerful assaults by the germans is believed near at hand because of the tremendous ex tent of the present preparatory bom bardments it is impossible to tell just where the germans will strike next they may renew their efforts in the armentieres salient in flanders but there is a strong probability their full power again will be flung against amiens in the somme district a correspondent at the british front writes that there is increasing evidence that the germans contem i plate a complete change in tactics as i a result of their two gigantic failures ! | in flanders and picardy abandon plan to breakthrough front t n place of the massed attacks at great stretches of the allied front as in the previous phases of the of fensive hindenburg is now expected to attempt a series of powerful local attacks against chosen key points in the allied defense lines aiming to capture gradually what he has been unable to win by a grand smash the germans says the correspond ent apparently have abandoned for the present their attempt to break through the allied front and separate the brituh and french armies and they also realize he adds that a rush british smother german a ttack in ypres region british london april 21 the official statement issued to night says : there was local fighting to our advantage this morn ing in the neighborhood of robecq where enemy troops were successfully ejected from some of their advanced posts the hostile artillery has shown considerable activ ity in the area apart from artillery activity by both sides on differ ent sectors the day passed comparatively quietly on the other parts of the british front the afternoon statement says : a hostile attack during the night on one of our posts south of the scarpe river was repulsed after some fighting an attempt by the enemy to advance northeast of ypres was stopped by our artillery we carried out a suc cessful local operation last night in the neighborhood of robecq on the southern side of the flanders salient in which a number of the enemy was killed and a few prison oners and several machine guns were captured hostile artillery was active yesterday afternoon and last night in the neighborhood of la bassee canal french paris april 21 â€” to-night's war office statement says artillery activity continued on the left bank of the avre river and also between montdidier and noyon a german raid on rheims was repulsed several raids were made by french troops on the german positions in lorraine and in the vosges the afternoon report was as follows there was artillery activity on the left bank of the avre river and also between montdidier and noyon a german raid north of rheims was repulsed the struggle continued throughout the night in the region of seicheprey french troops regained nearly all the terrain which had been lost to the germans american troops fighting in this region also repulsed a determined german attack in the same sector several raids were made by the french troops on the german positions in lorraine and in the vosges german berlin april 21 â€” to-day's war office report says on the battle fronts reciprocal reconnoissances led to violent infantry engagements near la bassee lens and albert there was a lively firing duel also between the avre and the oise the artil lery at many times was spirited between the oise and moselle lower saxon bat talions attacked the americans in their positions near seicheprey they stormed the place and pressed forward two kilometers into the enemy lines minor enemy counter attacks were repulsed and strong attempts to attack were held down and frustrated in the night our storming troops after the destruc tion of enemy works returned to their lines of departure the losses of the americans were extraordinarily high one hundred and eighty-three americans including five officers were taken prisoner and twenty-five machine guns were captured north of morville east of pont-a-mousson toul sec tor we took prisoners as a result of a forefield engage ment with the french bullets whistle over no man's land dairy british headquarters in france april 21 â€” british soldiers resting between furious attacks made by the germans between merville and nieppe forest early this week were i astonished to see a large herd of i milch cows which had been aban ! doned when the farms were evacu ated by french civilians despite the rain of machine gun and rifle bullets several tommies crept into no man's land milked the cows and brought tack several cans of fresh milk nobel prize winner dead opium in room new york april 21 â€” dr ferdi nand braun aged 68 who in 1910 ! shared the nobel prize with mar coni is dead he was permitted to delay registering as an alien enemy because of an illness of many months opium was discovered in his room but hi son conrad declared he had i no knowledge that the scientist used drugs wilsons see tank and airplane perform washington april 21 president and mr3 wilson members of the cabinet congressmen and 200.000 per sons witnessed a performance here to-day by the tank britannia and a giant caproni bombing machine while the airman was looping the loop the tank was trampling over trees the caproni swooped low dropped imaginary bombs and then performed thrilling stunts low over the crowds authoress'death note reveals futile love beaver pa april 21 a suicide note written by iss jean katherine baird authoress and dean of the woman's department at beaver col lege who was found dead in hsr room last night bared an unrequited love it was addressed to a well known man and read your arms will never be around her at nigrht i and your lip s will never touch hers but my dead lips will be therelfirst 183 u.s men taken says berlin huh win inrn ii 1 i si i mm itq nn r u fiubbll outnumbered pershing's sol diers battle germans in streets of seicheprey and rout them all positions re-established;teu tons claim five officers among prisoners taken with the american army in france april 21 m - positions of the americana remained intact after the strong ger man attack yesterday after a brief bombardment of the germans this morning the american soldiers launched an attack the teutons were driven from the out posts they had taken it is believed this american suc cess has checked an offensive de signed in military opinion here to divide the american and french forces in the toul sector american daring shown in battle during to-day conditions were com paratively quiet alongf thi whole sector northwest of toul the amer icans rested after their severe strug gle of yesterday stories are being 1 told to-day of great daring shown by the americans in yesterday's fighting much of which was a fierca hand-to-hand conflict french ambulance men who were at the front in the verdun battle declare the artillery fire directed by the germans against the americans was as heavy as that sent against the french in that famous battle americans most furious battle this is the largest and most fur ious battle the americans have participated in since they took over a part of the western battle front along the southern side of the st mihiel salient below verdun the french war office announced to-night the germans have been driven back north of the village of seicheprey which the franco-amer ican allies lost and rewon yesterday and that the french and american positions have been re-established in â– > their entirety the night official statement from 1 the berlin war office claims the cap ture of 183 american prisoners in cluding five officers and twenty-five machine guns berlin claims return after taking 183 u s men it also asserts the allied line was penetrated to a depth of more than a mile at seicheprey but adds that the germans after destroying the captured positions returned to their lines of departure - , there is nothing to bear out the further claim of the german state ment that the losses of the ameri cans were extraordinarily high on the other hand there is the report the germans suffered severe casual ties the germans launched their attack lit dawn saturday by sheer weight of superior numbers they pressed the french and americans back in the first rushes later report tells of u s victory french and americans took th counter offensive and in i>ru!taat fighting pushed the enemy bncfr the early statement of the parit | war office reported that nearly all ; the ground gained bjr the germans had been retaken and a few hours later came the night report thskthe continued on 4th page 2d cblumn continued on 2d page 3d column i final f leditionu Â¥ \_) ihe \ lathee l i . ji for chicagt nd viciiv \ . p it mostly cloudy and con tinued cold monday and tÂ«ea day probably light rain mon day | freah west to north vest wlnda ' â€” ' temperature ' â€” ' hishteat 41 ; lo wcat 36 ; mean 38

their entirety the night official statement from 1 the berlin war office claims the cap ture of 183 american prisoners in cluding five officers and twenty-five machine guns berlin claims return after taking 183 u s men it also asserts the allied line was penetrated to a depth of more than a mile at seicheprey but adds that the germans after destroying the captured positions returned to their lines of departure - , there is nothing to bear out the further claim of the german state ment that the losses of the ameri cans were extraordinarily high on the other hand there is the report the germans suffered severe casual ties the germans launched their attack lit dawn saturday by sheer weight of superior numbers they pressed the french and americans back in the first rushes later report tells of u s victory french and americans took th counter offensive and in i>ru!taat fighting pushed the enemy bncfr the early statement of the parit | war office reported that nearly all ; the ground gained bjr the germans had been retaken and a few hours later came the night report thskthe continued on 4th page 2d cblumn continued on 2d page 3d column i final f leditionu Â¥ \_) ihe \ lathee l i . ji for chicagt nd viciiv \ . p it mostly cloudy and con tinued cold monday and tÂ«ea day probably light rain mon day | freah west to north vest wlnda ' â€” ' temperature ' â€” ' hishteat 41 ; lo wcat 36 ; mean 38